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The Hugo Chavez Democrats

By on 10.29.08 @ 6:08AM

This is what we have to look forward to — and it’s only a preliminary list.

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Forced Unionism
Since the 1930s, American workers have had the freedom to choose whether to recognize a union for their workplaces in secret ballot elections. But the unions, which have regularly lost about half those elections, now say secret ballots are unfair. They want to change federal law to require recognition of a union simply when the union presents to the employer “union authorization cards” signed by a majority of employees at a work site.

When a swarm of union activists, who have your home address and phone number, come at lunch time to ask you to sign a union authorization card, do you really have an option publicly to say no? Or maybe they will come to your home. How about after your wife or teenage daughter get a threatening phone call? How about after you hear about someone who resisted signing a card at another work site who was beaten up by some people he didn’t know? Given the long history of disgraceful union violence, such public demands to sign a card do not involve freedom of choice.

Suppose the union gets signed cards from 51% of your co-workers (by hook or crook), but you don’t want to join the union. Unless you live in a state with a right to work law, you then have no choice. You have to accept the union as your bargaining agent, and pay union dues, which generally run hundreds of dollars each year or more. Your only choice is to quit and go work somewhere else.

Obama and the Democrat party now support the Orwellian-named Employee Free Choice Act to enact precisely this change in the law. But that is not all. If the employer and the union do not reach agreement on a contract in 120 days, then the Act requires the dispute to go to mandatory arbitration. The arbitration panel can then impose a two-year contract on the employer with the wages, benefits, work rules, and work conditions it decides are right. So when that union activist shows up at the employer’s door with those signed cards, the employer has lost control over his company. When the union drives him out of business and leaves the workers unemployed, the union will just go on to the next victim.

Obama also wants to change the law to prevent the employer from hiring replacements for striking workers. But this freedom, which has been in federal law for 70 years, is the core essential for making the whole union regulation system work, for it prevents unions from making excessive wage demands. If an employer tries to impose unreasonable, substandard and submarket pay on the workers, it will be unable to find sufficiently qualified replacement workers. But if the union is demanding excessive, above market wages, then the employer will easily be able to find replacements for strikers.

Still another bill supported by Obama and his lefty Democrats would force state and local governments to recognize mandatory unions for all police, firefighters, and other public safety workers. The real Change We Need, however, is just the opposite of all of this, a national right to work law that will grant each and every worker the freedom to decide whether or not to join a union. No longer would any worker in America be told that he or she must join a union or lose their job. That is the right law for a free country.

“Fairness,” Not Free Speech
If you thought liberals believe in free speech, wait until you see how they behave once they enjoy the overwhelming majorities they expect. First up is to shut down conservative talk radio through so-called Fairness Doctrine regulation of radio broadcasts. Under that regulation, government bureaucrats will decide whether licensed radio and TV broadcasters maintain a mandatory balance between competing viewpoints on public policy issues. Of course, there is no objective means for determining what balance between competing viewpoints on any issue is.

Network news is exempt from this proposed regulation because, after all, it is just objective reporting of the news, and we can’t have government involvement in that. Nor does the requirement for balance apply to newspapers or magazines like Time or Newsweek, because, after all, anyone can go and start up his own newspaper or magazine if he doesn’t like the existing ones.

Only predominantly conservative talk radio will bear the burden of this regulation. And the fundamental problem is economic. Millions and millions of people listen regularly to dozens of conservative talk radio shows across the country every day. Only a few liberal talk radio shows can draw enough listeners to survive. If radio stations have to balance popular shows with millions of listeners with losers that nobody wants to listen to, they will go out of business. Hence the end of conservative talk radio.

The right rule for a free society is the free speech doctrine, not the fairness doctrine. Everybody should be free to speak their mind on radio, and if they can draw enough listeners to survive in the market, they should be free to thrive. If they can’t draw the listeners, then they shouldn’t be taking up space on the radio spectrum.


The Brown Shirts
But the experience we are already suffering with Obama and his minions shows the trouble our nation is in. Lawyers for the Obama campaign are sending letters to the Justice Department demanding criminal prosecution of a nonprofit advocacy organization and its primary donor because they are sponsoring TV ads publicizing the close connections between Obama and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers. No one has demonstrated anything false in the ad, and the organization’s lawyers have been careful to comply with every legal requirement and filing. That is why the Justice Department has refused to take any action.

The Obama campaign is also sending threatening letters to TV stations running NRA ads about Obama’s anti-gun record, claiming the ads are false and misleading. The letters threaten the stations with FCC investigations regarding their licenses to broadcast. Obama’s campaign has done the same to stations running the Ayers ad.

A union front group called Accountable America has “launched a campaign to send ‘WARNING’ letters to potential GOP donors in a thuggish attempt to depress Republican fund-raising,” nationally syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin reports on her website. She includes an actual letter from the group, which starts out “Dear Republican Supporter.” It then threatens the potential contributor with investigations by the IRS, and “by the media and well-funded ‘watchdog’ groups” regarding their “business and personal affairs.”

Hans von Spakovsky reports at HumanEvents.com that the Obama campaign has organized a Barack Obama Truth Squad in Missouri that has received local media attention. Spakovsky writes, “It is made up of local prosecutors and sheriffs who say they will target anyone who ‘lies’ or runs a ‘misleading’ TV ad about Obama during the Presidential campaign.”

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About the Author

Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Heartland Institute, General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Senior Policy Advisor on Entitlements and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (63) |

Melvin| 10.29.08 @ 7:40AM

An Obama Presidency will not be the end-times, but a painful march back into the dark ages. When Americans start to experience something akin to the great Irish Potato Famine 1845-1852 then we will find that no one will admit that they voted for President Obama.
The propaganda arm of the Democrat Party will have no Conservatives to blame for this, Nancy Pelosi with her majority and Harry Reid with his super-majority will have no Republican politicians to pin the blame on for this coming financial famine.
Chris Buckley and the other former Conservative Kool-Aid drinkers will quietly slink back to their Conservative roots and beg to be let back in.
The Sixties radicals who will be in charge will be in their political nirvana because the will have brought his country to its knees and created chaos with out measure.
Here is a suggestion for a new greeting that can be posted in our Nation's airports to greet the new arrivals, "Welcome to Hell." Because under a Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers Presidency this is what it is going to be a living hell.

Grissie| 10.29.08 @ 8:39AM

Obamas oval office with the bevy of left-wing nut jobs in the Senate and House will further a downward spiral to the mouth of the Social Megladons. The vision of Wright, Flager, Ayers, Farrakhan, Khalidi, rubbing their hands together exclaiming I wish Frank Marshall Davis could be here to witness the crowning of his protege rewritting the Constitution is a staggering manifest of disbelief. The question I have asked over and over again to myself and others is, How did this man who could not have possibly been vetted, or even keep himself off the "No Fly" list become nearly President of the United States ? There is an outstanding false eloquence about this orator. The masses that are fawned by persuasive rhetoric he spews tells exactly their inability to recognize the actual danger this entire scenerio of his Presidency poses. I can only hope there are enough citizens "awake at the switch" to stop this attack on our Constitution.

Gavin V.| 10.29.08 @ 9:32AM

Re: "Obama Rules"

A Liberal acquaintance recently lamented my comment that those who support Obama are "economically illiterate".

Some of them are also just plain stupid.

Rick S.| 10.29.08 @ 9:46AM

"Obama Rules" demonstrates the extreme stupidity and danger of the fanatical koolaid drinking left wing wack jobs that support Obama.

While it may be patriotic to pay taxes, it is not patriotic to pay far more than one's fair share. That is what Biden was referring to. And as far as conservatives being America hating, all you have to do is look at what side constantly bashes this country and what it stands for. Obama Rules is a moron.

Paul| 10.29.08 @ 9:51AM

Re: "obama rules"
What flavor of kool-aid did this guy drink?

David| 10.29.08 @ 10:05AM

Re: "Obama Rules", it is morons like you that will be the end of this great country. It may very well be patriotic to pay taxes that support our military, provide roads, bridges and the like. But to take my money and give it to some low life scumbag that wants to suck off the system instead of working for a living, that's not patriotic, that's theft.

Jersey Pundit| 10.29.08 @ 10:13AM

I see the libs are reading Am Spec! Their kindergarten komments are getting my day off to an entertaining start.

The buzzword "fascist" appears with increasing frequency. Must be the talking point of the day issued by the DNC.

These mindless parrots couldn't identify a fascist if he slapped them in the face.

Come to think of it, one named Barrack Hussein Obama has been doing it to Americans for months now. To the lefty masochists, it must feel like illicit sex.

Kamel Cetin| 10.29.08 @ 10:24AM

Obi R. You stink real awful. And your mouth is foul too. Try Prozac. And Dove.
Liberals cling bitterly to syringes and abortion.

Ghastlyone| 10.29.08 @ 11:10AM

'Obama Rules'....please, quick, go grab a napkin and wipe that foam from your mouth before it start dripping onto your keyboard. I'm really proud of you, for not typing the typical "Bush lied, kids died!" and you didn't even mention Karl Rove one time!! Awesome!

Before going off on any other incoherant tangents, just remember your fellow "patriotic" liberals have been in control of congress for nearly 2 years now.....looks like they've done fine job for the working man!

BD57| 10.29.08 @ 11:46AM

Always fun to see the trolls enter a conversation ... *sigh*

That "the middle 20% of income earners . . . now pay 4.7% of federal income taxes" and "[f]ederal income taxes for the bottom 40% of income earners, the working class and working poor, have already been eliminated" is fascinating.

FIRST:

Whatever it is about life in present day America that's adversely affecting these folks, it ain't their tax burden.

SECOND:

Continuing to remove folks from the tax rolls only increases the constituency for government goodies .... those who pay no taxes get no benefit from tax cuts, so the only government decisions which benefit them are those that increase their goodies.

The fable of the Golden Goose seems instructive here ....

Ghastlyone| 10.29.08 @ 12:03PM

'Obama Rules':

I figured that would be the kind of answer we would all get from you about your limosouine liberal controlled congress [with 1/2 the approval rating of that darn dictator Bush by the way]

You talk a lot about Bush vacationing in Crawford. When do you think Obama will start running for a different job after taking the oval office? Since that's all he seems to have done so far from his senate career, I figure by mid 2010 he'll start campaigning again for something different.

Haha! I also forgot to mention about your "talking point" comment, about building the economy for the "bottom up", last I checked....I've never recieved a job offer from a dead beat poor person. Have you?

Common Man| 10.29.08 @ 12:57PM

'Obama Rules' is a moron...anyone seriously believing that paying taxes to a govt more interested in it's own survival than in the service of it's citizens is ineligable to vote, imo.

Article XVI ( 16th amendment for you libs ) of the US constitution was the single biggest mistake by any administration in the history of the nation, leading to a govt that meets the condition I mentioned above.

Welcome to Obamaland, land of the ignorant and home of the brainwashed.

Ghastlyone| 10.29.08 @ 1:29PM

'Obama "Talking Point" Rules':

Your house building analogy is the most terrible comparison I've ever heard. You obviously need to go read up on some basic economics. You didn't answer my question, have YOU ever gotten a job offer from a poor person??

So what's your problem that's holding you back from making a good living in America? Let me guess, you must be one of those "un-equal" persons, born into the lower spectrum of the gene pool, thus unable to secure a good paying job?

You talk about borrowing from China? How about stop Government spending and give EVERYONE a tax break?? Or would that not benefit you, because you're recieving a monthly check from the gub-ment?

And who cares how many houses McCain owns, I can care less. You must really envy people that have made it in life.
Hey you better stop drinking soda, buying gas, typing on your PC, buying groceries, buying cars, watching movies, etc. because your making these huge corporations that provide these things even richer and more evil!

Marc Jeric| 10.29.08 @ 1:59PM

After 40 years of marxist non-education provided by the goons of the teacher unions we have finally arrived to vote Abu Hussein into power. It is characteristic of our marxist mobs to call us normal people names like "fascists" and "nazis"; they conveniently forget the full names of those extinct parties of mass murder and oppression: Mussolini's "Italian Socialist Party (Fascists)" and Hitler's "German Workers Socialist Party". And that is what our Democrat Party has become. Blaming Bush for our economic troubles is another of those big Goebels-like lies: after the Clinton's neglect-caused terrorist attack by Obama friends on 9/11 and subsequent economic slowdown, we had 5 years of enormous growth with 11 million new jobs created; the came the Democrat majority in Congress and the subsequent economic meltdown caused directly by the Pelosi-Frank-Dobbs-Reid-Shumer conspiracy to give houses to millions of welfare recipients and unemployables. Now these criminals are expecting total power to continue to their final aim - the United Socialist States of America.

Ghastlyone| 10.29.08 @ 2:16PM

Obama Rules:

Did I ever say Bush was "my guy"?? I'm personally ashamed with the spending that's gone on with this government. You on the other hand, a blatent foaming mouth liberal, should actually be praising Bush for the spending and huge expansions of government, no?? That's what you guys like isn't it? Or has Bush not spent enough on "Social" programs for your taste??

I'll say this again...your fellow "working man" liberals [that control congress] have been approving Bush's budgets, mmmkay.

Also, you still didn't answer my question......Have YOU ever recieved a job offer from a poor person??

It's ok take your time, I don't expect you to answer that anytime soon.

Ghastlyone| 10.29.08 @ 2:27PM

Obama Rules:

This war that the "Village Idiot" got us into, huh? The same war Joe Biden voted to authorize? The same Joe Biden picked as VP by Obama for all his so called "foreign policy experience"?

So what you're saying is, all the Liberals in the senate that voted and authorized this "phony" war, were all easilyl duped by the "village idiot"?

lmfao! your posts keep getting better and better!

obamajihad| 10.29.08 @ 3:03PM

Obama Rules?

This is exactly what the Messiah wants and it will be at the expense of those outside of his radical circle.

Union workers? Yessir, Bossmaster, I will gladly, under penalty of a bullet being shot through my head, give you my paltry tax welfare check of $500 in the form of my union dues.

Middle Class? Yes, Virginia, there really isn't a Santa Claus. Of course, you do get your measly tax welfare check, but you only have 90 days to find a way to stay in your home even though you are months behind now. Obviously, finding this money will be difficult since that "rich" small business owner laid you off, but you can always light a candle to the Obamamessiah. Good luck, too, in trying to find a NEW job because the big, bad "rich" are no longer rich.

Mensches of Israel? Yes, as President of the USA, I, the king of the world, do think that you are a nation of mensches, but we can no longer protect or aid you. Yet, as a token of our respect, I am sending you a case of the candles that my middle class find so uplifting now that they are unemployed and homeless. Perhaps, by lighting them and reciting the enclosed "Ode to Obama", you can hope that you will not join them or worse should Iran and other radical islamofacists achieve their goal of your destruction.

The Poor? Well, of course, I, as your chosen One, understand why you believed me when I said that I would care about your plight. Of course, I did say that we, you and I together, would change the world and pay reparations through the redistribution of the wealth of the rich. But, c'mon, after the New Deal and the Great Society, you can't really be all that poor because we, Democrats, cared so much about you that we ended poverty a long time ago.

Freedom of Speechers? No speech for you. No criticism of me or you will be sent off to the indoctrination camp so as to join Joe the Plumber, the Orlando news anchorwoman, and all "rabid racists" that voted for McCain.

My pleboscites? You will no longer learn the basics of education, but the Art of Community Organizing and Rules for Radicals. Further, no longer will you be entitled to keep your GPA a reflection of your actual work. If such is to the detriment of other students, you will be forced to shave points off until all of the class has equivalent averages.

Limosine Liberals? Yes, I am your God, especially since you fought so long to remove the Biblical God from the public square and, yet, seemed to yearn for a Messiah like myself. Secondly, since you allowed me to take your property in the form of redistribution, I know that you will gladly fork over one-half of your home to me so that I can designate the appropriate family for house-sharing. Also, please have all records pertaining to y our current wealth, investments, 401(K)s (which will be going to the blackhole of the Social Security Administration), businesses, and all other cash and valuables of which you have an ownership interest. I will be seizing these, as I did those Mur tha-rednecks' guns, so as to end global poverty in my quest to makeover the world in my image.

If you object to any of my rules, you will be taken away by Bill Ayres and other anarchists. All others, bend over and say, "Hello, Dear Leader".

obamajihad| 10.29.08 @ 3:21PM

To all my fellow rational human beings:

Don't bother with morons-for-the messiah like "Obama Rules". If his Dear Leader is elected, he will soon be marching with Code PinkSlip!

obamajihad| 10.29.08 @ 3:36PM

Obama Rules

Darling, don't worry. While you are wondering what happened to that promised utopia, I will be in my beach house in Cabo. You can have YOUR President and "YOUR" Country. As long as the Messiah rules this country, I will be enjoying myself while you poor serfs suffer.

Obama will NEVER be my President.

Rick S.| 10.29.08 @ 3:38PM

"Obama Rules" is an idiot. Look, thinking conservatives (BTW, you're the fascist. And the Marxist) are not monolithic supporters of everything Bush has done. If he had any brass ones, and if the GOP congress hadn't lost their way on spending, then the supply side economics that you bash, would've helped reach the economy to heights never seen. I can't believe anyone thinks that the economy can be built from the bottom up. What moronic thinking. If you built it from the bottom up, then it would mean that everyone could create their own job. Which they can't. What an idiot

The republicans in congress forgot who they were, went on a spending frenzy, and that is why Bush has not succeeded the way many hoped. You leftwing fascist marxist wack jobs just love leftwingers like Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, who are more responsible than Bush or anyone for our current economic mess. I believe you will get your wish and have your beloved marxist savior Obama as president, and in four years, perhaps leftwingers will be thrown on the ashheap of history where they belong for all time. Part of me actually hopes Obama wins because it will be fun to see the left destroy itself. It always has and always will.

obamajihad| 10.29.08 @ 4:16PM

Obama Rules, Barney Frank called and since you like the idea of getting screwed by a liberal government, he wants you to come right over. He has a big government waiting to screw you most progressively.

Jim| 10.29.08 @ 4:19PM

Talk about mindless trolls out here. The left has completely lost it's mind.............

Jim| 10.29.08 @ 4:22PM

Tonight's proproganda news cast brought to by the dnc. KoolAid anyone? The left is the party of MISFITS, LOSERS and SOCIAL REJECTS!!! No wonder these fools want a handout.

Jim| 10.29.08 @ 4:24PM

Anyone that would trade their freedom for a HANDOUT DESERVES NEITHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ghastlyone| 10.29.08 @ 4:26PM

I just hope that "when" there is another terrorist attack [hmm..maybe a suit case nuke??] The Jihadists detonate it in a large blue state with huge liberal voting population. *wink*

ruth| 10.29.08 @ 4:27PM

Don't try to reason with Obomber Rules--he's off his meds.

loshooligan| 10.29.08 @ 4:29PM

Obama Rules:

Fascist Conservatives? As usual another leftist trying to pawn the idea that Republicans are fascists and not that it's leftist like you who are in lock-step with fascist ideas. Did you ever read Mein Kampf? Maybe you should. It should be enlightening, seen as how its the hand book for the Democratic party. Lets see...Even though Hitler brought "Change", promoted clean, energy-efficient mass transit, supported abortion for the non-master races, vastly expanded the power of the national government, banned guns, promoted vegan living, was against smoking, was adored by college students and their professors, and furthered his ideas through slogan laden propaganda, to control the irrational behavior of the general population, I believe the only reason leftist like you don't like Hitler is because your constantly comparing him to Bush.

Please spare the rest of the people in this comment section any more of your pseudo-intellectual ramblings. America hating conservatives? Do you live in some alter universe? You deserve all the intelligence the leftist media gives you.

obamajihad| 10.29.08 @ 4:31PM

Obama Rules | 10.29.08 @ 3:20PM
Obamajihad, your "president" called, he wants to know if his trickle-shit-down economy has worked for you lately?

It sure has, which is why I will be fine while poor fools like you suffer. I don't have to work. I made my money and employ many people. If I quit working, I will still have my money, but my former employees will have Obama's $500/yr. check. We will see who suffers most from your Messiah.

Rick S.| 10.29.08 @ 4:33PM

"Obama Rules"....you bitch about Bush and the GOP spending too much, but now you want to elect a Marxist who wants to spend even MORE!!!! What an idiot!!!! It's Jimmy Carter to the max.
And it's your leftist hero's who are anti liberty and freedom hating fascists. They want to CONTROL us because they think it increases their power. Obama's like a street corner drug pusher. Get 'em addicted, then keep 'em coming back for more until they can't live without the drug. That's what Obama's marxist policies attempt to do. In the end, you will be defeated as you always have. You are a freedom hating, liberty loathing fascist.

frank burns| 10.29.08 @ 4:35PM

This "obama rules" guy is either saying this nonsense just to be provocative, or he truly ignorant. Republicans/conservatives are "fascist", Sara Palin is a "socialist" - yet neither of these terms apply to Democrats, especially Obama! Get a dictionary, genius!

"fas⋅cism
   [fash-iz-uhm] –noun
1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.... "

Forcible suppression of opposition (plenty of examples listed above), punitive taxation, racism (Rev. Wright, etc.) - all of these EASILY apply to Obama, yet Mr. Obama Rules throws the accusation around with no clue what it really means.

so⋅cial⋅ism
   [soh-shuh-liz-uhm]
–noun
1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles..."

Nationalization of banks, forced unionization of private companies, hate crime/thought crime laws, confiscation of gun ownership, abolition of private property laws, "carbon credits"... anyone going to claim these are Republican, rather than Democrat positions?

jr| 10.29.08 @ 4:36PM

Yes, Jorge Bush is a miserable prez except for a very few of things, a couple of which were SCOTUS appointments. The remainder of his people selections were from the deepest pits. Do You Think -- that the people with money that supported the Marxist Obama thought about what it means to their future to be taxed into oblivion?

Jim| 10.29.08 @ 4:36PM

Hey "obama rules"

You must be one hell of a LOSER!!!!!!!! Must be tough being a COMPLETE ZERO!!!!!!!!

ruralcounsel| 10.29.08 @ 5:21PM

Obama Rules:

When Obama wins, and you come to drive me off my land, you better come with something more than your mouth.

I've got a spot on the back 40 to bury you.

Troll that.

Thomas| 10.29.08 @ 6:10PM

Obama Rules said, "( ".

In response, who cares?

Mike Cole| 10.29.08 @ 6:12PM

obama rules
Is just a "typical negro" who thinks his ship has come in (and he's right). However, He’s never had a real job – has only worked for some government related entity – why? Hell he can’t earn a living like real Americans because he has a negro attitude and negro intelligence. In fact he reeks of ignorance. That makes him the perfect obamamite. Every grade he’s ever gotten in school was given to him. He understands less than 15% of what posters have written about him or to him. Remember the old saying, “When you argue with an idiot, they will beat you with experience.”

He will not be at his “job” next Tuesday, because he will be getting the vote out for obama. What will his employer think? Nothing. It’s a government job so they know they would get sued by typical negro boy if they didn’t let him do what he wanted.

Actually based on “race norming” standards (the liberals favorite, just Google it) obamarules is one of the smartest if not smartest individuals commenting here. Of course compared to the white commentators he would be at the 10% level or lower. And trust me, obama will restore “race norming” to the delight and demand of his fellow negros. And don’t forget the 10 trillion in negro reparations. Obamarules is likely having an orgasm just reading this.

But the boy forgets one important fact. Our military is completely ruled by, and full of, good ole white boys. So eventually, the liberals will be experiencing the second American revolution.

Mike Cole| 10.29.08 @ 7:07PM

Well that proves it.

“obama rules” is just another stupid negro.

If he wasn’t a negro, he would have corrected me.

If he didn’t have a meaningless government job, he would have corrected me.

America has WASTED tens of trillions of dollars on negros with virtually nothing to show for it. But America ain’t seen anything like the waste that we are about to see.

I would also guess that “obama rules” was jumping for joy just like his muslim buddies back on September 11, 2001. Unless, being a negro, he forgot all about that.

And to write that Bush and Cheney had ALL the power. My God, he’s even dumber than I thought.

And by the way “obama rules,” my “post” is ABOVE your post. Perhaps you haven’t figured out that the most recent posts are the last posts. So there is no way my post would by “below” your post. But then that would have taken a little intelligence on your part. So we completely understand you missing that.

I can’t wait to see his response this time!

Rick S.| 10.29.08 @ 8:23PM

I'm watching Obama's infomercial right now, and I'm about to vomit. This guy is a meglamaniac...no different than Saddam Hussein with a God complex.

Mike Cole, I hope you're tongue'n'cheek, but if not I don't support your bigoted thoughts.

James| 10.29.08 @ 8:39PM

Obama Rules wrote : "David, the beginning of the end of this country began in 2000, when your dear fascist Dictator Bush stole the election."

Always the same from B.S. Socialists. The left is always sticking up for dictators and it’s getting damn old. Sad as it is, the left here and abroad try to paint Bush as a dictator. We know that can’t be true, because if Bush was a dictator - the left would love him.

And liberals wonder why conservatives believe that they don’t like this country. It’s hard not to think that when they’re so damn quick to degenerate it and make ridiculous moral equivalences.

Notice that almost every conversation with a liberal always brings up the question, “what about America?” It doesn’t matter if the talk is about Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, Castro’s Cuba, Kim Jong-il’s North Korea, or Mahmoud Ahamdinejad’s Iran. They always compare things to America and paint a picture of us being the bad guys.

Obama Rules, your Obamabots are in trouble. The Obama/Khalidi tape is smelling really, really bad.

Rick S.| 10.29.08 @ 8:47PM

Obama Rules:

The only dictatorship will be Obama with full support from the leftists in congress:

Forced participation in Obama's nationalized healthcare

Lack of Privacy in Union Voting (forced)

Confiscation of income of hardworking americans to give it to people who don't pay income taxes

Shut down of free speech through the "fairness" doctrine

Increased trade barriers

Forced higher energy prices

Confiscation of private 401K plans

Nationalization of Airlines

and on and on and on.

Whose the dictator?

Bloefeld| 10.29.08 @ 9:02PM

OBAMA RULES

I wonder if Obama Rules has ever read the Communist Manifesto. Or looked at the historical result of its implementation.

Obama isn't about taxes, he is about redistribution of both wealth and power. He wants to take power and freedom away from the electorate.

He has stated that as his objective. When he suggests higher taxes so that the government can become more or involved in the day to day life of its citizens. He is taking away one of the most important freedoms we posses, our economic freedom.

This is the standard sales pitch of his comrades, Chavez, Castro, etc etc. He wants to make things more fair by taking money from the wealthy and redistributing it to the poor.

He is going to give 500 bucks to the poor. Well if that doesn't dig them out of poverty nothing can!

But he is really going to take the ability of profitable enterprises to generate capital. He is going to tax their profits and instead of the money going back into sound investments, it is going to be sucked into the giant maw of the government.

As yourself this OBAMA RULES; who do you think does a better job of making your personal life better; Microsoft, Cell Phone makers, Agribusiness (without whom you simply do not eat), Toyota, General Electric or the Post Office?

These companies do so well because they are forced to compete for capital and other resources. This means they must make products that customers like or they will not get the resources they need.

Now, when your buddies gain control of America, what are they going to do? How good was Barney at picking a winner when he told us that Fannie was in great shape and great place to invest. I bet you were thrilled when you followed his advice and put all of your money into that enterprise.

Well Barnie and the rest are going to be 'picking the winners' they will base these choices not on merit, but on who they like for political reasons.

Take a look at the history anywhere in the world and at any point in history and see how many advances were made because government caused it.

It will take you a long time and the list will be short.

But that is what you can look forward to when you vote for Obama and the rest of the Democrats.

America will lose its main global advantage, its continued growth in productivity. It will lose this because corporations will not have access to capital to buy the latest and greatest technology. There will be less of that technology around for the same reason.

Actions have consequences and they are predictable. Voting for the Democrats is going to create a level of chaos unseen since the last time America did something this idiotic, elected Jimmy Carter.

Cheers,

Bloefeld

Ghastlyone| 10.29.08 @ 9:57PM

Well said Bloefeld, well said.

Like I said before, the comment sections here are the best.

Mike Cole| 10.29.08 @ 11:31PM

Bloefeld;

You are being way too optimistic regarding where America is heading and what will happen under obama.

Don't forget the return of affirmative action...on steriods. That should give "obama rules" that tingling feeling up his leg.

Curious Jack| 10.30.08 @ 12:37AM

The level of economic and political ignorance by many of the Obama supporters in this forum is frightening.

Fascists confiscate private firearms by placing more and more regulations on the owners. Obama supports that. Look at his voting record in Illinois.

Fascists control speech. Obama supports the Fairness Doctrine. Talk radio will be muzzled.

Fascists control production by excess regulation. Obama supports that.

Fascists support expanding the number of citizens who depend on the government for support. Obama supports that.

Fascists distort and destroy democratic constitutions. Obama wants to change our Constitution to include "social and economic fairness" . Nowhere in our Constitution does that idea even exist. Remember the name of the Nazi party was The National Socialist Party".

All of these policies were put into law under Nazi Germany. They are about to be implemented here. Hitler was an elected official.

It looks as if the "Atlas Shrugged" is about to become reality. If the Dems control Congress and the courts, there will be another revolution. Count on it.

Fac

A Balrog of Morgoth| 10.30.08 @ 4:41AM

Why debate a troll?

Maryanne| 10.30.08 @ 4:43AM

For a vid about Obama's association not just with Marxists, but Marxist Imagery which really shows where his head is at, check this out on YouTube (runs about 2 minutes and is very visual) (you'll need to cut and paste because I have no idea how to do a hyperlink)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SWdlS9cOHw

Here's a link for a conservative bog specifically aimed at Young Voters:

http://youngvotermedia2008.blogspot.com/

namoron| 10.30.08 @ 8:17AM

Obama Rules:

Why does your house building analogy suck. I don't care how skilled or unskilled the labor is the house doesn't get built until the MONEY is there. It is hard to build a house without materials and permits. That cost money! period. The labors don't pay for that the developer does. Can I lend you a crobar to pry your head out of your behind?

Show me one time were anything got built with out first money to get the project rolling. Materials cost money, money that labors don't bring to the table. End of story.

ruth| 10.30.08 @ 10:58AM

Obomber, leaving? Did you pick up your astroturf check from Axelrod?

ruralcounsel| 10.30.08 @ 11:49AM

Why address what Obama Rules said? Because it just isn't one person, its the same sick philosphy of a huge multitude of Obama supporters. And they are even more dangerous as a group than as just one annoying disoriented Troll. They are the Democratic Gestapo, the Liberal STASI, the ACORN KGB. And their buddy is about to get his hands on the controls of POTUS as well as the House and Senate, and with a few appointments, SCOTUS too.

The article made it pretty clear just how much retribution and revenge these clowns are going to go for. Time to batten down the hatches, folks.

If Obama Rules was right about Bush being fascist, he'd have been tortured and made dead long long ago. A fascist wouldn't let someone like that walk around any longer than it takes the secret police or the his local "truth squad" to nail the sucker.

Hunker down and gear up. It's about to hit the fan, and it won't be evenly dispersed.

Frank Burns| 10.30.08 @ 12:33PM

Quoting "Obama Rules:

" Thanks for proving my point about Republicans being fascists:

fas⋅cism:

A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power. BUSH, CHENEY.

Forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism. HOW DARE THE LIBERAL MEDIA QUESTION THIS WAR?

And emphasizing an aggressive nationalism . . .
IF YOU'RE NOT WITH US, YOU'RE AGAINST US. SCREW THE EUROPEANS AND THE FRENCH, BOMB 'EM! "

1. How are Bush/Cheney "dictators" with "complete power" - ??? At every turn you have Democrats usurping executive power with impugnity: such as Pelosi ILLEGALLY negotiating foreign policy with the Syrian gov't ; Jack Murtha accusing US soldiers of "war crimes" with no evidence except "the seriousness of the charge"; Charlie Rangel lobbying for a reinstatement of The Draft, and so many other examples; hardly what happens in a dictatorship (just ask anyone who survived Saddam's regime).

2. How dare the lib media question this war? Questioning it is one thing - actively undermining it is quite another: Dems have been on the warpath to subvert any possible success (Dick "Baghdad" Durban an obvious example); voting to defund, insisting on rigid timelines for withdrawal (imagine if we'd told the Nazis in WW2 exactly when we'd give up and go home; you NEVER tell an enemy when you quit; or in simpler terms, imagine you're a pro boxer and you're getting hit harder than you expect - ok, one or two more punches, you give up and fall to the mat; fight's over, everyone's happy - especially the victor);

Nobody's ever said the war cannot be challenged: go into any bookstore and see the new cottage industry build around "Bush lied" - again, hardly something an all-powerful dictator would permit.

3. "aggressive nationalism" - you have a minimal if tangental point here: but remember, and this is crucial, the US mainland was NEVER hit until 9/11, and never with such devastating consequences; ask the relatives and survivors of that horror if it wasn't ok to insist "you're with us or against us" - isn't that what our attackers themselves believe? And nobody ever advocated, as you said, bombing Europe or France - except the Islamists (example: the train bombings in Spain led to a left-leaning election, and to the citizens' chagrin their new "saviors" refused to do anything except continue to cave in to the new aggressors); same thing is happening in Britain and France, where Muslims and Islamists are taking over entire areas and Sharia law is being permitted!

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" seems to be the Democrat mantra - a very dangerous way to view the world; Republicans are NOT your enemy; they are trying to protect you from your own ignorance. Not saying you're stupid - just dangerously uninformed, and you and those who believe like you are NOT immune to future disasters, whether they come from without or within - Socialism, Sharia - or possibly both, under Obama.

Frank Burns| 10.30.08 @ 12:46PM

Another thing: Democrats and Leftists insist that we can "get along" with ultra-violent thug nations like Iran, Syria, North Korea, even Russia by simply talking to them - but there will be NO such negotiating with Repubs and Conservatives who make up half of our OWN country! They want a ONE PARTY SYSTEM with NO DISSENT - forcible redistribution of wealth, gov't monitoring the airwaves for "fairness", abolishing secret, private balloting - exactly what are they going to "talk" about with these foreign thug nations? Hey, we're like you now: help keep us in power and we'll give you anything you want (just don't bomb anything in a "blue" state, ok?)

Rick S.| 10.30.08 @ 1:49PM

Did anyone see the details on Obama's incentives for small businesses to create jobs?

This moron Obama just came out with a new proposal to "create jobs".

He says he'll give a $3K tax credit to business and corporations for every "net new" employee they hire during the 1st two years of his administration.

Whose coming up with this crap? Is this guy a complete moron?????

Hey Barack...GET A CLUE YOU DUMBSH*T!!!!

Let's see Barack. It cost a company an average of $55,000 in wages and benefits to add a net new employee. What are they gonna do, pay $55K to get a $3K tax credit????

HELLO!!!! MCFLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We actually might elect this imbicile as our president.

Hey Barack, why don't you just propose to do what NEARLY EVERY OTHER COUNTRY, EVEN THE SOCIALIST ONES, ARE DOING ALL ACRESS THE WORLD???? Drastically REDUCE CORPORATE TAX RATES AND GET RID OF CAPITAL GAINS TAXES ALTOGETHER. THEY'VE FIGURE IT OUT, WHY HAVEN'T YOU????? WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS? BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT REDUCES HUGE COSTS, SPURS CAPITAL GROWTH AND BUSINESS GROWTH, WHICH IN TURN DRIVES THE NEED FOR NEW EMPLOYEES.

DUH!

What an idiot.

Frank Burns| 10.30.08 @ 2:44PM

What if Americans really do believe that Obama, our (possible) Dear Leader may save the economy by "creating jobs" - if you're going to tax employers into poverty, there's one other way - create GOVERNMENT JOBS.

Since we're half-way to nationalizing our banks, insurance and other systems (big govt owns 51% or more, they control), why not these wealth-creating job opportunities?

- Fairness Doctrine Monitors: employ thousands to monitor ALL non-network communications for "balance" - ie, any non-leftist position: report them to the FCC or other govt institutions for such violations, and then:

- we need MORE employees to enforce "fairness" - more IRS investigators, proxy institutions with "legal" powers of persuasion;

- Hate crime/Thought Crime reporters: as an employee of the Dept. of Fairness you receive a bonus every time you report a fellow citizen for "unfairness", which may take the form of Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, or simply disparaging the name of our Dear Leader [Joe the Plumber is only the first]

- Weapons possession: non-minorities can be targeted under a new "Weapons Freedom Act" to invalidate the 2nd Amendment: again, you can earn a lot of $$$ [or carbon credits] based on how many citizens you can report - RAPPERS EXEMPTED.

None of this will be a problem if everything is UNIONIZED - you will be given a "ballot" handed to you personally - do you dare vote against them, since they know your name and address? Nice car you got there, buddy, hate to have anything happen to it... your wife drive it?

Frank Burns| 10.30.08 @ 4:00PM

Comrades: your "tax breaks" shall be distributed as CARBON CREDITS or what we like to call GREEN STAMPS - collect credits by ratting on your friends and neighbors! You may qualify under our Dear Leader's New Deal as a Green Stamp Monitor, Fairness Monitor or other such collective. Help spread the wealth!

Tom Paine| 10.30.08 @ 11:42PM

I can't tell which is sillier, the article or the comments posted.

Obama is by far the more qualified candidate for president. He is more competent. More articulate. More intelligent. He has a better temperament. He chose a more qualified running mate. People trust him more. He's a better leader. He ran a far better campaign. He gives better speeches. He has better ideas. He's more reliable. He's more open to new ideas.

ruth| 10.31.08 @ 1:47AM

Tom, that's some bad crack you've been smokin'.

Adolfo| 10.31.08 @ 3:50AM

Mr. Paine - unless you are a member of the Obama campaign (and that's no guarantee), you have no certifiable proof of any of your claims sans the only two I grant you - Barry Hussein's team has operated a better campaign and he reads teleprompters/cue cards very well...

Rick S.| 10.31.08 @ 8:19AM

Hey Tom Paine,

How can you claim Obama is more competent when for just one example he's got this idiotic idea of extending a $3K tax credit to small businesses for every net new employee they add. What kind of incentive is that? What idiot would actually believe it would be? I mean, you do know that the average cost of adding an employee is $55k when you include salary, benefits and training. I'm sure all those small business owners will line up to spend $55K to get a $3K tax credit.

Small business owners add employees when their business is growing, because their markets are growing. All Obama's policies will do is stifle growth, meaning small businesses will be cutting employees. Obama will probably try to do something like add $3K of taxes to all small business employers for each employee that they cut due to his policies.

Who comes up with this stuff. Where are the brains of the Obamazombies?

This country's days are numbered if this idiot takes over.

Tom Paine| 10.31.08 @ 12:19PM

Adolpho

Aside from being amazed that anyone of your political persuasion is interested in anything so elitist sounding as "evidence" for a "claim," I think the proof will be in the election turn out this Tuesday, when 70 million of your fellow Americans line up and vote for Obama.

Adolfo| 11.1.08 @ 9:02PM

Mr. Paine - that's Mr. Garcia to you, 1st. 2nd, as you and those of *your* political persuasion have caterwauled in the 2004 election cycle, the only score that matters come Tuesday is McCain-Palin: 270, Barry-Jolt'in Joe the Plagiarizer: 269, or it's game-set-match for the "Good Guys in White Hats"

Grissie| 11.2.08 @ 7:56AM

The news clip that says it all. An excited black woman exclaiming after one of Obamas rallies.
"I won't have to make my car payment or my mortgage payment, I'm voting Obama.
Well there it is folks thats whats voting for "The Great One".

Worried| 11.2.08 @ 8:43PM

No one has mentioned obama's comments about wanting an internal national army... why would we need a 'quote' large, powerful national army'? Why...to have complete control and intimidations of US citizens. Where would this large army come from...we already have trouble recruiting for our armed forces. Could they come from all the poor, misunderstood felons in our prisons...you know...serve you homeland and 'get out of prison early ticket'? Instead of Hitlers Brown shirts, perhaps they could be called Obama's Black Shirts...and don't forget about Obama wanting a Youth Corp...like Hitler's Youth Corp...perhaps. I'm really worried, history has a way of repeating itself.

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